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The paper describes some of the immediate political circumstances which contributed to the making of the Ganges Waters Treaty in 1977 and to its demise five years later. Then the paper identifies the social group which appears to be most influential in the setting of the agenda for river development in South Asia. Finally the paper concludes that conceptions of the ’national interest’ and expressions of class interests require careful analysis if the timing and nature of river development decisions are to be understood.
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Crow, B. (1985). The Making and the Breaking of Agreement on the Ganges. In: Lundqvist, J., Lohm, U., Falkenmark, M. (eds) Strategies for River Basin Management. The GeoJournal Library, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5458-8_26
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